Enola Holmes 2 |
* * * * MA15 2022 ‧ Mystery/Crime ‧ 2h 9m
When Enola Holmes-Sherlock's teen sister-discovers her mother is missing she sets off to find her becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.
Release date: 4 November 2022
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6.6/10 IMDB
91% Rotten Tomatoes
While the mystery might be elementary (my dear notably absent Watson) the storytelling is winkingly subversive proclaiming that a new and welcome game is afoot.
Buoyant and precocious without being even slightly annoying Brown has pinpoint comic timing infectious perk and a wholesome tomboyish aura: imagine a young Keira Knightley crossed with Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
"Enola Homes" is the kind of movie that the preteen set will surely delight in and watch over and over. I know I would have.
ENOLA HOLMES 2 (MA15+)
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The first Enola Holmes might have been a touch on the gimmicky side - look everyone it's Sherlock Holmes' kid sister - but its all-important murder-mystery business was top-notch.
The obligatory sequel has smoothed out most of the wrinkles and refined the formula to draw more power from Millie Bobbie Brown in the title role.
The Stranger Things star does not let anyone down particularly when engaging in many of the movie's direct-to-camera asides to the viewer. The new case afoot here is also a cracker set against the atmospheric backdrop of London's Matchstick Girl strike of 1888.
Enola just happens to be in the throes of opening her own detective agency when a young factory worker goes missing. As the case develops Sherlock (Henry Cavill) is always in the background keeping a watchful eye while snarky Scotland Yard investigator Superintendent Grail (David Thewlis) is always getting in the way of a crucial clue. Both entertaining and engrossing for the most part and more than worthy of warranting a third instalment. Co-stars Helena Bonham Carter Louis Partridge.
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